Reading High

What Ruben Rodriguez, Rick Perez and the Reading High basketball program have done over the last three seasons is astounding: Two PIAA championships Three District 3 titles A program-best 32-1 season A three-year record…

After scoring the last of his 2,008 career points, after winning the last of his dozen championships, Ruben Rodriguez was emotionally drained and physically exhausted. He had nothing left to give. “I’m done,” he said, relieved and…

Can a team make the playoffs by collecting more walks than hits? Muhlenberg might. The Muhls don’t have the stacked lineup that carried them to the Berks League championship last season but they’re still scoring runs – lots…

Donyell Marshall became an overnight sensation in the summer of 1990, just before his senior year at Reading High. No one outside of Pennsylvania knew much about him until he attended the NIKE All-American ABCD Camp at…

The most successful postseason in Berks boys basketball history provided a slew of memorable games – four of which went into overtime. With Reading High winning the Class 6A title, Exeter reaching the 5A title game and…

By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor Players such as Ruben Rodriguez and Lonnie Walker IV usually emerge about once a generation. If this were meant to be a review of the last seven basketball seasons…

Ruben Rodriguez, Myles Grey and their Reading High teammates are far too young to know the name Darryl Washington or of the unrelenting pain he inflicted upon a generation of Red Knights basketball fans. When Amier Burdine…

Before his Reading High teammates contested their first shot or hit the floor for the first time to scrap for a loose ball Ruben Rodriguez threw down the gauntlet. “Are you ready to coach the greatest basketball team ever?” he…

By  Sean McBryan -- MikeDragoSports.com correspondent Reading High’s Ruben Rodriguez reached the 2,000-point threshold last week, prompting a response from a fellow 2K scorer and Red Knight, Rashida Suber. …

By  Sean McBryan -- MikeDragoSports.com correspondent 1. Wyomissing breakout The Spartans’ 28 wins are the most by a Berks girls team since Boyertown went 28-5 on its way to the PIAA Class 6A title in 2017. The Spartans won…